Shinichiro Watanabe

Shinichiro Watanabe 渡辺 信一郎 Watanabe Shinichirō born May 24 1965 is a Japanese anime television and film director He is best known for directing the critically acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Cowboy Bebop Samurai Champloo and Space Dandy Watanabe is known for incorporating multiple genres into his anime creations In Cowboy Bebop for example Watanabe blends classic cowboy western with 1960s1970s New York City film noir jazzblues music Hong Kong action movies and sets the entire series in space In his later work Samurai Champloo Watanabe unites the cultures of Okinawa hip hop modernday Japan and chanbara From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia